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Ancient Web: RCDB Has Been Measuring Roller Coasters Since 1996

The Roller Coaster DataBase turns amusement rides into structured records, tracking thousands of coasters, parks, companies, dimensions, layouts, photographs, videos, and operating histories worldwide.

Ancient Web: SeaForces Built a Hand-Made Naval Database

SeaForces is a sprawling naval reference site organized around ship classes, submarines, international fleets, naval aviation units, weapons systems, and special reports rather than a modern news-feed interface.

Ancient Web: USPaperMoney.Info Tracks the Serial Numbers Nobody Else Wanted to Catalog

USPaperMoney.Info is a specialist reference for modern U.S. currency production, serial-number ranges, star notes, print runs, block lists, uncut sheets, and the small manufacturing details collectors actually need.

Ancient Web: Ceder.net Turned Square Dancing Into a Giant Searchable Database

Vic and Debbie Ceder’s Square Dance Resource Net grew into a sprawling collection of calls, clubs, callers, choreography, events, music, cue sheets, and old dance definitions.

Ancient Web: Mug Shots Has Classified A&W Root Beer Glassware Since 1995

Ken Polsson's Mug Shots began in the summer of 1995 as a page about roughly 30 A&W Root Beer mugs and evolved into a collector database with its own classification system, price history, corporate timeline, and decades of revisions.

Ancient Web: FabPedigree Turned 296,000 Genealogy Pages Into One Hypertext Rabbit Hole

Jamie Allen's FabPedigree is a gigantic hand-linked genealogy project containing nearly 297,000 pedigree pages, ancient-lineage claims, alternate pedigrees, errata, famous names, and an unusually frank warning not to treat any of it as authoritative.

Ancient Web: Oleg Bartunov's University Directory Became Part of PostgreSQL History

Oleg Bartunov's old Sternberg Astronomical Institute web directory became a working home for PostgreSQL research and development around GiST, GIN, tsearch2, pg_trgm, hstore and other infrastructure that later became familiar parts of PostgreSQL.

Ancient Web: BFRO Has Been Cataloging Bigfoot Reports Online Since 1995

The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization launched its website in 1995 and built a long-running sightings database with geographic indexes, investigator notes and a Class A/B/C system based on the potential for misidentification.

Ancient Web: StarLing DB Built a CGI Laboratory for Comparing Languages

StarLing's database server preserves searchable etymological, typological and lexicostatistical datasets through a dense CGI interface built for comparative and historical linguistics.

Ancient Web: PlaneCrashInfo Built a Searchable History of Aviation Disasters

PlaneCrashInfo has been cataloging aviation accidents since the late 1990s, preserving a blunt, hand-built database that reaches back to the earliest years of powered flight.